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...Civil Service Reform Club will hold a smoke talk in the Blue Room of the Colonial Club at 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. Richard H. Dana '74 will speak on "A General View of the Reform, Including its Objects and Methods...
...Dana '74 will speak at a smoke talk of the Civil Service Reform Club, Monday evening at 8, in the Colonial Club. His subject will be "A General View of the Reform Movement...
...Ware was one of the organizers of the New England Tariff Beform League and of the Massachusetts Tariff Reform Club; and he was for a time president of the Civil Service Reform Association...
...Senate on all appointments mean nothing. Our real safeguard is in the sturdy sense of the American people. To seek some object first and then to seek the means to gain it, is illogical. To get good legislation, we first need to get good public men. To do that civil service is needed. In, say, a question of tariff legislation, keen strife between groups of producers is inevitable. If we commit such a task to men who peddle votes for places or a President who peddles places for votes, poor results are a foregone conclusion...
...concluding, he said: "We have lived to see the merit system applied to nearly all departments of our civil service and I firmly believe that if it continues true to its traditions and principles, it will live to see those principles recognized in legislation and observed in practice throughout the Union...